Over $13 million worth of allocations in Blue Waters supercomputer awards have been given to researchers and faculty at Illinois studying a diversity of topics.
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Blue Waters Aids Researchers in Breakthrough Flu Simulations
Rommie Amaro, a Blue Waters researcher from UC-San Diego, has used Blue Waters to simulate movement in the viral envelope of the flu virus.
Blue Waters Professor Awarded $3.3 Million for DOE Project
Kaiyu Guan, a Blue Waters professor at NCSA, and his research team have been awarded a grant to measure carbon emissions in bioenergy crops.
NCSA and Partners Win Hpcwire Editors’ Choice Award for Earthdem Collaboration
NCSA has been awarded the Best Academic/Government collaboration award for EarthDEM, a collaboration with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency that seeks to create digital elevation models of the entire Earth.
Blue Waters Announces Four Webinars for October and November
NCSA has announced four new Blue Waters Webinars taking place over the next two months.
Understanding Earth’s Geomagnetism with Blue Waters
Dr. Weijia Kuang from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is using Blue Waters to gain insights into the inner reaches of the Earth
NCSA Collaborates with NGA to Create the World’s Most Powerful Geospatial System
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced a new collaboration between the Blue Waters Project, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the University of Minnesota and The Ohio State University to produce digital elevation models (DEM) of the entire Earth
New Broadening Participation Allocations Now Available on Blue Waters Supercomputer—Apply by March 1
This new category is open to faculty and research staff at U.S. academic institutions who have not previously been a PI on a research allocation on the Blue Waters system.
NCSA’s Blue Waters project provides $1.08 billion direct return to Illinois’ economy
Editor’s note: The original version of this article had inaccurate funding information related to the construction of the National Petascale Computing Facility. It has been corrected. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign released a study Wednesday detailing the current and projected economic impact of its Blue Waters project on Illinois’ economy. […]